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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:32:23 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Cc: "Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: g4r5 and CF issues
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Larry,

I am aware of all that, thank you.

Cheers,

a

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:56:18 -0800 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy,
>    This is a big problem if it is not just an isolated issue with this
> particular flash card. I think the bobcat migration plan calls for
> pulling the compact flash from the bobcat and placing it in the cougar
> then reading the configuration from data from that flash into the
> cougar's flash. If there is a requirement that only certain flashes
> will work in this procedure then major changes need to be made to the
> process and plan. This will need to be communicated up the chain.
> Expect serious blow-back from those who's job it is to pretend to be
> concerned.
> 
> I am Cc'ing Tim to give him a heads-up.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:05 PM
> To: Narain Ramadass
> Cc: Larry Scheer; Sripal Surendiran (HCL); Deepak Veliath; Sudharsan
> Srinivasan
> Subject: Re: g4r5 and CF issues
> 
> Houston, we have a problem.
> 
> I took the flash card in question and stuck it into my "new" system,
> and I got the same problem as reported in the bug.  No other flash
> card I have does that.  It's broken.  We may have to set a
> requirement on the flash cards that are used for this operation: ie.,
> that they are qualified for Cougar, since not all CF cards that work
> on Bobcat work on Cougar, because Cougar uses interrupts, and Bobcat
> doesn't.
> 
> That said, there may be a problem with the hardware on the latest
> build boards, as my new board does not behave the same way as my old
> board. I'm still investigating that issue.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:54:08 -0800 "Narain Ramadass"
> <narain.ramadass@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry abt the confusion Larry - we in fact want a BSD flash on the
> > sec slot to test Bobcat to Cougar migration.
> > 
> > We noticed a problem with accessing the secondary flash on the
> > filer - filed bug 22383 for this. Andy then informed us that this
> > was in fact working fine on his filer and that there may be a
> > problem with either the flash or the slot that causes the oops.
> > 
> > We certainly want the BSD flash on the 2nd slot - if g4r5 has a
> > problem with the reader, we'd like to move to a diff Cougar.
> > 
> > Thanx for your help,
> > Narain.
> > 
> > > _____________________________________________ 
> > > From: 	Larry Scheer  
> > > Sent:	Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:49 AM
> > > To:	Sripal Surendiran (HCL); Narain Ramadass
> > > Cc:	Andy Sharp
> > > Subject:	g4r5 and CF issues
> > > 
> > > Hi Sripal,
> > >    I have been placing the BSD flash used for the migration
> > > testing in g4r5 every night before I go home because that was the
> > > last instructions I received from you and I guessed that was
> > > still what you wanted. Narain told me you needed Linux flashes in
> > > both slots last night.
> > > 
> > > As it turns out my habit of doing that may have uncovered a
> > > problem with the pci bus on g4r5. Andy is investigating the
> > > issues.
> > > 
> > > Just let me know how you want g4r5 set up and I will configure it
> > > before I leave or turn it over to Narain to configure.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Larry
